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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-30
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO,

Yesterdays Quotations on Produce at the
Two Great Commercial Centers.
NEW YORK. Sept. 29.-Flour-Receipts. 49,
$50 packages; exports, 2503 brls and %, 395
sacks; market dull but generally steady; sales,
1900 brls.
Wheat--Receipts. s9,476 bu; exports, 49,
464 blu; sales, 3.424 900 bu futures and 146, 900
bu spot. Options opened weak and declined
304c, subsequently ruled stronger and reacted
20ac, closing firm at tho best prices of the day
Speculation more moderate. Spot lots firm but
rather quiet No 2 Chicago. 81l 0s3c;
nominal S8c; No. 2, red. September, S04 % Sic,
closing at Sic; October SOL q Sic, closing at S1c
November. 81 11-16 s2sc. closing at 822c
December. s3s a SO 16c. closing at S33c; Janu-
nry. S4s 085c, closing at 55c; February. S5s q
s64c, closing at S64c; April, ST. a Ss3c. closing
at sssc; NAV, SO 1916 9s9Ac, closing at sole;
June, 80 3-16 a S9sc. closing ut 89sc; December
16SS), 93s a 94c, closing at 94c
Corn-Receipts. 1874 600 bu; exports, 81, 158 bu;
sales, 552, 900 bu futures and 10000 bu spot
10ac higher on options; spot firm, less doing
Ungradsd. 51t a 53sc; No 2. 52ic in elevator. $50
In store. 52a a 52ic delivered; yellow, 52sc; No
2. September, size, closing at Size; October,
52c. closing at SIC; December 52052ac
closing at 522c; January SIC. closing at sc;
May, 53f a $3.50. closing at 53ac
Oats-ReceIpts, 900 bu; exports. none;
Spot shade higher and moderately active.
Mixed Western, 324 a Sac; white do. 81 a 4Oc.
Hay quiet; shipping. SOC.
Hops steady and quiet
Coffse-Spot fair Rio steady at 19lc. Options
opened 20030 points lower, and closed firm
decline partly recovered. Sales, 43 500
bags. September, 1L25c; October, 1920
IL 45c; November, 174001765c: Deem
per, IL 0l7 80c: January, 1z6C a IL soc;
February. IL rs oil Soc; March, 1865 q II 90c;
April. ". 60 a IL. soc; Nav. 1Z65 017S $50; June
i7.60Dl7 S5c; August, IL Soc Sugar frmer and
quiet; fair refined quoted at 1916 4lc centr-
tueals. 90 test. 7-16c Molasses grades, 4 d sc;
refined steady: extra. SIC: white extra G, 52c;
standard a, 11-16 05se; granulated. &c; cubes.
Ste. Molasses dull.
Rice quiet steady.
Tallow Arm. Rosin steady.
Eggs in fair request and firm. Receipts
ISIS packages; Western. 1Sl 02lc.
Pork fairly active and rather easier; mess
quoted at $14. rs for old. and $l5 250
Is. so for new. Cut meats firm; fresh hams 92c.
Lard q shade higher; Western steam spot, 6 So
G6.92ic closing at 90c; October, 6. 81 n 6 S2c
November. 675 d6.77c; December, CTS IS. TIC;
January, 6. 81 a 6. $50; city steam, 6. Toe.
Butter quiet but frm Western 13025c:
Western creamery, 16025c. Cheese firm and
unchanged.
CHICAGO, Sept. 29-No one had anything to
say about wheat. to-day. except TO surmise that
TWO or three prominent dealers were buying it.
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Cash quotations were as follows: Flour firm
and unchanged. No. spring wheat, 7O4 a 7lc;
No. spring wheat. nominal; No red, 734c;
No. corn. 42sc; No 2 oats 252 q 26c: No
rye. 48c; No. 2 barley, Zoe; No. / 1ax-seed.
81. 05A; prime timothy-seed So. % Mess pork,
per bril-, $500. Lard, per 10. 40c Short
rib sides Qoose), 7.75c; dry sailed shoulders
(boxed). 5.25 a s. 30c; short-clear sides (boxedl.
8.15 as Zoe. Whisky, distillers' finished goods.
per gal, $1.10. Sugar, cut loaf, 6s q 7c; granu-
lated. &c asked: standard A, 64c asked.
On the Produce Exchange, to-day. the butter
market was irmer; creamery. 24c; dairy. 10
O19dc. Eggs firmer; fresh Northern. II
Rsceipts-Flour, 81. 900 brls wheat. 43, 900
bu; corn, 21S 900 bu; oats 2l2 900 bu; rye, 1000
bu; barley, $4,000 bu. Shipments-Flour, H.
900 brls: wheat, $1,000 bu; corn, 21l 900 bu;
oats, ITO, 900 bu; rye, none; barley, $4,000 bu.
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AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Central Iowa's Affairs.

MARsHALLTowN, Ia, Sept. 20 The two FAC
tons in the reorganization of the Central Iowa
road. represented by the regular Stickny organ
ization committee on one hand, and by the
Elijah Smith or Boston committee on the other
hand, failed to harmonic their differences In
time for the sale OF the road yesterday, and
Lomax. the special master. announced the sale
postponed Oct. 20, by agreement The
Stickny interest has already purchased the
eastern division and all the branches. The
Smith following is concerned only in the bonds
the main line and the additional time Is APP
parently for the purpose of bringing that interest
into complete acquiescence in tn. Stckny reor-
gauiZatiou.
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Cotton.

NEW YORK. Sept &C. L. Green & Co.'s re-
port says The teverish and undetermined character
of the market is its principal feature. There a
pretty good business during the day but the fuctu
atoms only to the extent of two three points
with final rates steady at substantially last nights
figures.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept 29.-Cotton steady; mid
ding 13- 16c; low middling, S12c; good ordinary
FEC; net receipts. 1852 bales gross receipts,
$3.50 bales; exports to Great Britain, 500 bales
sales, 5 600 bales; stock, go, 99l.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 29.-Cotton-Free supplies at
irregular rates; middnc uplands. 514d middllng Or
leans 5 516d sales. 10, 900 bales, including 900
American.
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New ORLEANS. Sept. pa special from
Aberdeen, Miss, to the Times-Democrat says:
"a golden spike was driven yesterday in the
Kansas City. Memphis & Birmingham railroad,
at Crews Mill, seven miles west of the Missis-
sippi line. and thirty seven miles east or Aber-
deem. The line, working from each terminal
president of the road, and Mr.. Elliott. chief en-
gineer, besides the other officers and many cti-
of the vicinity. present The occasion
ateiy
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Oil.

PITTSBURG. Pa. Sept. 29.-Petroleurn dull but
steady; National Transit certificates opened at
67iac, closed at 67l4c; highest 6.Ac; lowest
665sc.
NEW YORK. Sept 29-Petroleum was quiet
Opening. 67lsc; highest. 673ac: lowest, 665sc clos
ing. 673sc. Sales 500. 600 brls.
SAVANNAH, Ga. Sept. 29.-Turpertne firm at
zoe.
OIL CITY. Pa. Sept. Educational Transit certi-
Gates opened at 81 asc; highest. 6Sc lowest. 665ec
closed 67i9c. Sales $4,000 brls; clearances.
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"MONON ROUTE"
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway.
The Short Line to Chicago and the Northw
Trains depart ind arrive as follows:

Trains depart ind arrive as follows:
Depart
No 10 O. g. NJ. c. fast msil, d. Sun - i:50 n rn
No 10 Chicago night express. daily. Lille D. m.
No 10 Monon Ac., daily OK. sunday. SOC p. m.
Arrive
No. g. Cincinnati night express. daily 1885 a.
No. 1 l. Ind. fast mail, daily Sunday 3:45 D.
No IL Ind. Ac., daily except sunday - o:oo m.
Ticket Offices: 20 South Illinois street lilo South
Illinois street Union Depot Massachusetts, avenue.
Il. q. MCCORMICK. q. z. A. n
]. d. BALDWIN. ID. p. A.
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A Station Agent Arrested.

MINNEAPoLIs. Mimi, Sept 29-An Evening
Journal special from Moorhead, Mimi, says
This morning United States Commissioner Til
lotson held McFeely, station agent of the Mani
toba road here. under 81, 900 bonds, to answer
to the charge of violating the interstate-com
nerce law. McFeely had refused to transfer
wheat from the Manitoba to the Northern Pacific
tracks
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81. LOUIS. Sept 29.-Woo1 easier and shade
lower; unwashed; bright medium 240 241ec; coarse
braid, 0023c; low sandy. 170 19c; bright light,
2l0 pc fine heavy, 1702Oc; tub-washed, choice
SIC; fair, 81 035c; low. 30032c.
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Dry Goods.
Narw yQPK Car

INV YORK. Sept 29.-As the result of i n
quiries business moderate with agents. but
through deliveries old orders the distribution of
ceipts was fairly large
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Metal q.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29-Copper steady; lake.
1O.37l2c. Lead duh; domestic, 430c. Tin quiet
anti firm
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LIVE STOCK.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. %.
CHARACTERISTICS, 200; shipments, 90 The
offerings mostly butcher grades. quality
only fair. Market steady.
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FARM SEED.

Huntington g. Hoss, Indianapolis wholesale and re-
tail dealers in clover timothy, blue grass, orchard
grass, red top etc.
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2.oo2. 600 brls; charters. 1924; shipments, 53,-
OS4 brls; runs, 80, OIL.
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The Jobbing Trade
CANNED GOODS.
Peaches-Standard. pound. 81 65 a 8 90; 3-po1ind
seconds, $500 12.25. Observation-Disclosures,
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Fancy shippers 81 3O04.6O
Good to choice shippers 3.S004.15
Common to medium shippers 3.O003. 60
Stockers and feeders. 2.25 03. %
Good to choice heifers. 2.8503.35
Common to medium heifers- 2.10D2. 90
Good to choice OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2.5003.1O
Common to Medium cows------...... 1.2502.25
Veals common to good ----...-.-..... 1926 Its
Bulls, common to good .-...-..---..- 1.5002.50
Mixers per head. O0036.O 90
HoGs-Receipts. !. 090 shipments, 1,225 About
twenty-five on ssle quality fair market
opened active and a shade higher, fine heavy
grades all sold early.
Heavy packing and shipping SO04.95
mixed packing 40OO4.I0
rigs ana oIOO4ZO
SHEEP-Receipts, 800; shipments, 275. The
supply continues light; market about the same;
all sold.
Good to choice 04oO
Common to medium ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 25O03.25
Spring lambs. common to good..-.-.. 10000.
Bucks, per head 80. 2OO03.OO
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RAILWAY TIMETABLES.

RAILWAY TIMETABLES.
VNESNSYLVANIAL LIN ES-.THE DIRECT AND
i POPULAR PASSENGER ROUTES.
Trains leave and arrive at Indianapolis as folowg
PANHANDLE RoUrE-EASr.
Leayefor Pittsburg. New York, ETC.. 3oan 4:55pm
Richmond and Colun bus IL 4:o0pui
Arriyef from N. Y. Pttsbg and East l0:2Opm
8. Colnmbns Richmond, etc 9:4Dam 3.50pm
Seepers to Pttsburg and New York without change.
CHICAGO DIVISION.
Leave for Chicago and North west.. ll:0opm
Arrive from Chicago aud Northwest. 4:1oAn 3:50pm
j.. M. b l.. R.. R.-soUrH.
Leave for Louisville
and the South $685.. 4:l5am sl5am 4:00pm 7:Oopnn
Arrive from Louisville
and the south -. io:20am Ie:50am 6:45pm 1o:45pm
r.. R.-soUTHwEsr.
Leave for Vincennes 1:lnam 4:l5pm
Arrive from Nincennes
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NANDALIA LINE-SHURTEST ROUTE To
ST. LOUIS WEST.
Trains arrive and leave indianapolis as follows:
Leave for st. Apam Ii.55am S:Opm lI:9pn
Greencastle and Terre Haute Accom- 4:apn
Arrive from st. L. :45am 4:l5am 3:35pm Efopm
Terre Haute and Greahcastle Acco 00Jsm
Sleeping, parIor and recll ming chair are run
throup OH trains. For rates and information apply to
ticket agents of the company ii. II. DERING As
eistant General Passenger Agent
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-22
The Motive Force of the World.

From a note published by the Bureau
of Statistics in Berlin the following very
interesting figures are taken.
Four-ffths of the engines now work
ing in the world have been constructed
during the last five lustra (25 years..
France has actually 40, $50 stationary
or locomotive boilers, 1000 locomotives,
and $50 boats boilers; Germany has
80 600 boilers, 10000 locomotives, and
/, 700 ships boilers; Austria, 1000 boil
crs and 2, 800 locomotives.
The force equivalent to the working
steam engines represents i'll the United
States 7, 800, 900 horse power, in Eng
land, 1000, 900 horse power, i'll Ger
many, 4,5O0,000, i'll France, 5000, 900,
in Austria, 800, 600. In these the mo-
tive power of the locomotives is not in
Guided, whose number in all the world
amounts to 105, 900, and represent Il to-
tai of 3,O00,006 horse power. Adding
This amount to the other figures, we OBJ
tain the total of 46, 900, 600 horse power
A steam horse power is equal to three
actual horses power; living horse is
eoual to seven men. The steam engines
today represent in the world approx
matciy the work Of thousand millions
of men, OF more than double the work
ING population of the earth, whose total
population amounts to l ,455, 923, 600 in
habitants. Steam, therefore, has trebled
mans working power, enabling him to
economic his physical strength while
attending to his intellectual develop
mcnt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-22
How Tin Foil Is Made.

Will you believe it when you are told
that more than one million pounds
of the foil are used annually to
cover the smoking and chewing tobacco
manufactured in the United States alone?
The method of making it is interesting.
The tin is, of course, taken out of the
mines, the best of which for this pur-
pose are in Australia and the Dutch pos
sessions of the East Indies. The metal is
found in veins or assures called lodes,
though it is often found in a dispersed
form in loose stones, which, when found
continuously, are called streams. The
rock containing the ore is blasted with
gunpowder and carried to the stamping
mill, where it is pounded and washed.
1t is next smelted and the tin run into
blocks, containing from two hundred to
four hundred weight each. This is the
condition in which the metal is kept for
ordinary use. Two means are used to
reduce it to the necessary thinness. The
old manner of hammering by hand after
first being cut is still used to a great ex-
, tent. BY this process, however only one
/ surface could be produced, and to obviate
this difficulty rolling mills were invented.
Prior to their invention nearly all the
tinfoil was imported, but their use has
thoroughly rcvolutionized the trade The
metal is now placed between two heavy
rollers, which gives it finished surface
on both sides. 1t is then cut into widths
of from twelve to fifteen inches, rolled
upon wooden reels and carried to cat
ting machines, where it is cut according
to order. 1t is then packed in boxes of
one hundred pounds each, being laid in
without pressure. There is another diff
ference between the foil that is beaten
and that which is rolled. The former is
full of small holes, but the foil to be
used for tobacco wrappers must be air
tight.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-22
Governor Marmaduke's Charge.

Governor John S. Marmaduke, of Mis-
souri,, is fifty-five years old and con-
firmed bachelor. During the war he was
a Confederate Cavalry General and made
a rcputation as a dashing fighter. His
soldiers tell this story of his leading
a charge: All day the Generals forces
had been skirmishing with the Union
troops around town in Missouri finally
the town was entered and a charge or
dered up the main streets. The Union
cavalry posted at the other end of the
town gave the COnfederates warm re-
ception. General Marmaduke's horse
was shot from under him. He asked
private to dismount and leaped upon his
horse. The private had a big pair of
saddle-bags hung over the rear of his
saddle, stuffed with sundry merchandise.
Clapping spurs to the horse the General
was soon flying through the streets at a
rapid pace. Women and children, those
who were brave enough to look out of
the windows, began to yell and laugh,
and the brigade the General was leading
broke forth with loud shouts and peals
of merriment. From both saddle-ba
long strips of ribbon streamed in the
breeze and futtered about the heads of
the horses in the rear. The pouches on
each side of the horse were winding out
ribbon almost as rapidly as the conjurer
Hermann unwinds it from hat. Pieces
of ladies' dress goods also began to swing
out. He mistook the shouts for encour-
agcment and continued his wild charge
until he discovered the real cause of the
din. The private had arrived in the
/ town before the General and helned him
self at the drygoods stores to everything
he could put his hands on. The General
laughs at the joke now, but he said it
was used by the Federals for all it was
worth during the war.
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Narrow Escape From a Big Bear.

The largest bear any of us ever saw
was a cinnamon that came witl<I an inch
of killing one of my men, good hun
ter and first-class guido-Charles Huff.
Il may refer to the big cinnamon, too, as
an instance of the danger that sometimes
attends trapping the bear.) He had set
his traps near Sunlight, in the spring,
and was unable to visit them for a week.
When we got to the bait, trap and log
were gone. After taking up the trail, he
soon found the remnants of his log
chewed to match-wood the bear, evil
IDENTIFY large one, had gone off with the
trap. He followed his trail as long as he
had light, but found nothing, and had to
return to camp. Next day, very fool
ishly, he took the trail again alone, be-
ginning where he had left off. After a
long march he came to the steep side of a
hill the bear had evidently gone up
there; on the soft, snow-sodden ground
the trail was plain. Just as he was be
ginning to ascend, there was a rush and
a roar, and the bear was on him. He
had no time to put his repeater to his
shoulder, but letting it fall between his
hands, pulled the trigger. The bear was
within few feet of him, and by great
chance the unnamed bullet took him be
tween the eyes. He had evidently tried
the hillside, and, worried by the heavy
trap, had come back on his trail and
lain behinI a great heap of dirt, into
which he had partly burrowed, waiting
for his enemy. Among the debris of
spring tide-fallen stones and uprooted
trees-a bear could easily lie hidden, if he
was mad and wanted to conceal himself
till the enemy was within few feet. 1t
was terribly close shave, ScFibRer'S
Magazine.
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4 Snake Farm.

The omaha Herald is responsible for a
description of a snake farm, which it
says is situated at Gallon, Ill. The
farm, it says, consists OF forty acres of
virgin prairie, owned by Col. Dan Slower,
and is short distance from town.
There are thirty-seven mounds of earth
on the farm, prepared in such way that
the snakes use them for nests, and there
are about ten OF twelve nests to the
mound. The Colonel says each nest
turns out about a dozen rattlers each
year, so that his stock is increasing rap
idly. He has contract with Phila-
delphia patent medicine firm that is max
ing q rheumatism cure, and furnishes
them with $50 snakes year, at 1925
each. No snake less than four feet long
is accepted. Last year 1853 snakes were
sold, his customers being scattered
through a number of cities. AS much
care is taken of the young snakes as if
they were lambs. The newly-hatched
snakes, if not properly cared for by their
mother, are taken to the Colonel's home,
located in one corner of the lot, and
there fed by the children, who catch
bugs for them about the garden and
street Sometimes the eggs were
Matched out under the stove. A half
dozen very large snakes, with their fangs
drawn, are kept about the house as pets.
They are excellent mousers, much bet
ter than cats, the Colonel says. The
Colonel wanders about his farm, taking
no other precaution against the reptiles
than to wear pair of thick boots. When
a reporter called on him, the Colonel
complained that the neighbors did not
come to visit him very often, and that
his wife didn't like that much, for she
was fond of company, but, on the whole,
since there was plenty of money in the
business, they were very well content.
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Quicksilver Mines.

Most of the quicksilver mined comes
from Spain and California. 1t has been
extensively mined in the last named
place. The mine of this metal at New
Almaden, California, having been worked
previous to the gold excitement. All the
workable deposits of Cinnabar thus far
known to exist are situated in the coast
ranges, and they are chiefly limited to the
metamorphic cretaceous group of rocks,
in which they are associated with serpen-
tine, imperfect jasper, hornstone and
chalcedony. By far the most important
mines are those at New Almaden, a few
miles west of San Jose. These produced,
in their palmy days, during the years
1853 to 1857 and 1861 to 1859, from 2, =
500, 900 to 3, 500, 900 pounds of quicksil-
yer per annum. In 1870 the production
had fallen off to !, 1000, 900 pounds. The
total production of the New Almaden
mines between 1850 and 1870 was little
more than 40, 900, 900 pounds. The New
Idria mine is in Monterey county, about
ninety miles south of New Almaden
This has also been, for some ycara, a
quicksilver producing localisS Of consid
cradle importance. CinnaBSr also occurs
in considerable quantity at numerous
places north of the Bay of San Francisco,
in Napa and Lake Counties. The most
important mine in this region is the Red
ington, near Knoxville, in Lake county.
The export of this metal from California
was, in former years, very large, reach
ing in 1868 the amount of A, 406 TASKS,
or 3, 404, 700 pounds; in 1870 it was only
6, $50 TASKS, although the production for
that year was estimated at 90, 600 TASKS,
of whice ~, 900 were the product of the
New Almaden mine, 1900 of the New
Idria, and of the remainder, about one
half was from Redington and the rest
from various smaller mines north of the
Bay of San Francisco. -Jecelry Ne,oS